Someone once asked me, “What is your passion?”
I have been married for 30 years, so I suppose I looked at them funny. They continued on, “You know what makes you want to wake up in the morning? What do you think about during the day?”
Ahhhh……
Your passions are what you love to do, passions are not work, and passions are what put a smile on your face.
A person is lucky indeed if their passions co-inside with their life and career. Have you ever heard the expression, “most men live lives of quiet desperation”? (It actually originated by Henry David Thoreau in 1854)
When I was growing up my dad owned a Buick Dealership. He was very successful and was asked to serve on many community boards. He was a very warm, friendly, lovable man, with many friends and business associates all over town. But, deep down his family knew running the car dealership was not his passion. 
My dad loved race-horses. Now by loving thoroughbreds, I don’t mean gambling or going to the races, although he loved that too.
No, I mean he enjoyed every aspect about them, the breeding, the blood-lines, the history, watching them train, feeding them, the whole thing. Before, my brother and I were born; my grandfather was in the car business. My grandfather ran the business and dad was able to spend more time doing what he loved to do. When my brother and I came along, he had to get serious about working with my granddad at the dealership.
But, his passion, all his life was the horses, not the automobile business.
In the book, Bo’s Lasting Lessons, written by Bo Schembechler and John Bacon, Bo says,
“When people talk to me about all the sacrifices I’m suppose to have made pursuing this crazy life-in time, money, in status-I have to laugh. They weren’t sacrifices to me. I got to coach! And that is all I ever wanted to do.”
Bo Schembechler was a fortunate man; his passion was the game of football and he got to spend his life doing what he loved to do...coaching.
Today, I see many young people, graduate, take a job they don’t really like but is financially secure and start down the road of living lives of quiet desperation.
What is your “all you ever wanted to do?” What are your passions?
Is it real estate? Do you love the housing industry?
I love helping people; my degree from college was in Social Work. The skills I learned there were very transferable to real estate. Real estate is a career that is all about helping people. We help them find their house, we help them negotiate the inspections, we help them find a loan, we help them make sure there are no title issues, and we help them get the best price for their home if they are selling. We become their counselor, their trusted adviser.
If you don’t like helping people achieve their dreams, then it is time to get out. Many Realtors and Lenders are getting out. It was easy to have this career in a sellers market, it is hard now. You have to be committed to do what needs to be done to help people accomplish their dreams. That includes working hard and being passionate. I am passionate about real estate and helping people I meet along life's way.
Do you still have a smile on your face, when you write an offer? Take a listing? Go show houses? Originate a mortgage? Stage a house?
My "aha" moment came when I realized that at the core of my being was a passionate desire to help people, it was in Social Work and now it is Real Estate.
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